Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-30
PAPIER MACHE.
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"A dollar you can't tell me what that
matchbox is made OF, said Dick,
handing the object to his friend, Harry
Dolt.
"Don't bet, in the first place, replied
Harry, "and don't care in the second.
'Spose all man wants to know is, if
! it'll hold matches and is't too big for his
pocket"
"Never saw such fellow as you in
my life. I'm sure that if the last iudg-
ment was announced on good authority
for noon, sharp, tomorrow, you'd take
it as matter of course"
"Why not? When run up against
the inevitable, try to manage things
so rs not to get concussion of the brain.
Is there anything as startling as your
supposed announcement in that match
| box?"
"Did you ever see piece of polished
ebony as light as that?"
polished pancakes? It's nothing
but papier mache. Any child can tell
that"
Perhaps so. But, admitting the
fact, there is a child of about six-and-
twenty winters in front of me who
can't tell how papier mache is made. !"
I'm very much given to minding my
own business, and the making of papier
mache is no part of it. But I think it's
an open question whether you could ac-
curately describe the process yourself.
By the way, why does it interest you?"
Il have the prosperity of Pittsburgh
at heart Some people seem to think
that all we can OF ought to do here is to
make iron, steel, and glass. Now, with
our splendid advantages in point of
fuel, / think Pittsburgh would be a
first rate place for the manufacture of
paper car wheels"
That's quite another matter. Now,
I'm prepared to listen. But you know
I love brevity."
"Well, cotton forms the basis of the
paper used. The sheets are pasted to-
gether with dextrine until the mass is
thick enough to go under the hydraulic
press. There they are squeezed into
any desired form, which, when dry, is
as hard as and good deal lighter, bulk
for bulk, than any wood"
brief enough; go on"
"This product is poreless, fiberless,
sapless, and knotless. 1t is subjected
for twenty-four hours to high drying
heat. Then it can be worked with any
kind of tool. The vanishing of it is a
mere detail"
1T is from this substitute that are
manufactured all those bracelets of
large black beads studded with Scotch
imitation diamonds, all those necklaces,
pins, clasps, and trinkets of all sorts
that are taken for pitch-coal of some
precious wood. Again, those handsome
bracelets, composed of semi-lucid and
opaline globules that seems to have
been cut out of a,5tone formed by &C.
centric layers, like certain precious
stones, are merely of papier mache,
cemented with white varnish and coated
with the same So, too, those beauti-
full nacreous, painted and gilded trays,
round tables, and caslsets that are
known as Japanese work, are merely
papier mache. The Japanese know but
one kind of gliding, while we have two
the dead and the brilliant. We have,
likewise, q liquid nacre taken from the
scales of the whitebait that we'll imi-
tates the white currant and certain
transparent berries. The nacre is sol
idly inlaid by means of the hydraulic
press, and finally the surface is finished
with pumice stone to make it perfectly
even, and covered with q colorless var
nish of the first quality"
"Well that was worth listening to.
But if were as much Interested in all
this kind of stuff as you are, think I'd
try and invent something myself"
"Too many patent sharps around.
Wouldn't pay. More fun in letting
other fellows do that"
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